Dean Loses It

National Review Online ^ | Jan 20, 2004 | Byron York

[duckbutt]

Yup - - the cheese has definitely slipped off that cracka'

[ought-six]

Edwards will get the nomination.

[Akira]

See post #80, you two have something in common. ;-)

[TexasRepublic]

[CSM]

THanks for the links. I was looking for the sound to foward to all my friends.

[GulliverSwift]

Especially since Kerry was in Vietnam.

[colorado tanker]

Dang. You could see this coming for weeks, as the gaffes piled up and more pundits questioned his electability. I was just hoping he'd sew up the nomination before melting down.

What's funny is what Democrats think an "electable" candidate is - a Massachusetts liberal.

[Akira]

If they have radios, chances are they've already heard it. They're playing it all over Dallas radio this morning, and I hear that people like Stern are also milking it for all it's worth.

It was definitely an instant classic. What a meltdown.

[GulliverSwift]

Mean Dean's little pep rally was spontaneous, unrehearsed, and largely unintelligible. Hitler's performances could not be more different. They were carefully scripted and choreographed down to the last detail, rehearsed, and bone-chillingly focused in message. The only element common to Hitler's rallies and Dean's rally is their anger.

No, he definitely had practiced his lines, like the one about if you told us we'd finish third, we'd have given anything for that. Plus, he had to sit down beforehand and work out the states in the correct order or the primaries, and then the states his opponents come from.

[Not A Snowbird]

I watched his speech with the mute button on because I was on the phone at the time. I commented to my husband that he was really wound up and kept pointing his finger at everybody and shouting. This morning I heard the audio to go with it and nearly wrecked my car I was laughing so hard.

The man's unstable. I don't want him anywhere near a position of authority.

[Pure Country]

Just reading his "state" rant above made me laugh all over again...

Watching it, I felt like I was at an Amway Rally.

[My Favorite Headache]

Jesus...your post was dead on about Dean.

[CSM]

I figure they have all heard it, but it is an inside joke. We have a weekly toast at our happy hours, the toast is basically, arrrrrrrrrrgh.....Dean stole our toast!

[Not A Snowbird]

Watching it, I felt like I was at an Amway Rally.

Really? I should go back to selling Amway!

[LibertyThug]

I disagree with your assertion. ;-)

[Democratshavenobrains]

I expected Dean to go over to John Edwards and bash a chair over his head.

[My Favorite Headache]

You too could be a Double Diamond Direct!!! Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

[orionblamblam]

> and I hear that people like Stern are also milking it for all it's worth.

On the drive in to work, I heard Stern talking about Dean. He played the Dean rant twice... once over an AC-DC tune, and once over a Nuremburg Rally Hitler spech. The AC-DC one had me laughing... the Hitler one nearly made me drive off the road. I haven't laughed that hard in a LOOOOONG time. I'd love to get audio of THAT.

[spectre]

"I just heard it again and it reminded me of a clip that Rush played, years ago, of Ted Kennedy at a rally."

Bingo! Actually, he was imitating Ted Kennedy from just the other day...Anyone see that?

sw

[KeyTapper]

I think that Dean's performance last night was exactly that...a performance. I think he was in total control. Dean has a following that reacts well to that sort of angry behavior. It is very Hitleresque. He turns on a rant and works his crowd up into a frenzy. It works in a crowd, but I don't think he realizes how he looks in still photos, and to people watching on tv. Dean fails to consider that most of his audience is beyond the camera and therefore, not affected by the rant in the way he predicts.